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> He has watched many movies, but he doesn't have a favorite one. Not sure why that's supposed to be a bad thing. > And the same is true for many other VC typ
by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> He has watched many movies, but he doesn't have a favorite one.
Not sure why that's supposed to be a bad thing.
> And the same is true for many other VC types
Andreessen isn't just one of those "VC types". He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser. [1]
If you don't consider him to be brilliant, I'm curious to know who in the same space do think is?
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
- borroka 4y agoIt is not a "bad thing" per se. But say, you meet up with someone and they say they watch plenty of baseball games. And you ask them, "who is your favorite baseball player?". If they answer, "can I answer with my favorite tennis player?" or they say "I don't have a favorite player", I would find equally bizarre and suspicious. It reminded of an episode that happened to me a few years ago. A colleague was talking about a person we both knew (apparently) and he said, of course I know her, we spend time together, we went on vacation together, man, I don't remember her name now. Did they go on vacation together? Did they know each other? Did he have cognitive problems? Now MA is a VC guy, a few decades ago he built Mosaic. I'm not saying he's not fantastic at building web browsers, he is a genius, but I find that if the same interview had been given by someone who gets less credit than the inventor of Mosaic, he would have been taken little seriously from that point on. But I could say the same about Gross, who was interviewed along with Cowen during their "book tour." He has made tens of millions or more from technology, but during their interviews he appeared rather light on the intellectual side.